Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that he will meet with protesters in Istanbul and “listen to their thoughts” after a solid week of condemning them as “terrorists” and “looters.”
Erdogan’s meeting is seen as something of a concession, but he continued to rail on against them, saying that his patience is wearing thing and that he will demand that they end their “illegal” protests.
The protests have gone on for over a week, with violent police crackdowns leaving at least three dead and thousands wounded. It started as a government effort to tear down one small park, and is now a nationwide collection of rallies demanding Erdogan’s ouster.
Erdogan’s reaction has been to call for more crackdowns and to condemn the protesters at every opportunity, while ruling out giving in to even minor demands. The agreement to meet with them is likely conciliatory, but would’ve been much more impactful if done last week.
This man is working for Saudi Arabia.., the Turkish economy is the Saudis and UAE investments.., mostly in real state.., he wants to be the next member of EU and implement the Islamist idea in Europe, he is a modernized fanatic .., he got everything against people's freedom and a functioning democracy due to his personal beliefs and to please his Saudis and UAE masters.., he is the supporter of the Syrian and in reality encouraged the war in Libya and Syria by supporting terrorism sent to turkey and shipped to Libya and Syria to fight the people of both countries, he is the puppet of NATO militarism regime and his days in politics are numbered.
His agression against Syria cosying up to obama using Turkey as a springboard for Syria civil war dictatorial stand overall having lost contact with the people who will bring him down off his perch
"Turkish police have taken several dozen lawyers into custody for joining the ongoing protests. The arrests in Istanbul come as police launched a crackdown on protesters in the city’s Taksim Square".
By using special police forces and brutality of a kind.., the democracy in turkey is fading as we speak.., earlier he order the arrest of few generals accusing them of treasons wanting to start a cop de Etta.., paving the way for his emporia idea.., that day is approaching.
The USA and EU idea in this matter is to divide the regions among such puppet as Erdogan which make turkey more dependent on foreign policies then Turkish people freedom and democracy.
There's also the issue that US NGO's (NED?) are associated with previous revolts/protest movements. But, separately… started as a government effort to tear down one small park is consistent with spin intended to trivialize the protests. As/more likely there was a pattern of gov't behavior for which that event was a 'flashpoint.' One event closely following another is not proof that the first was the exclusive cause, or a cause at all, of the second…though one can sell such 'proof' to the GWoT-Sucker.